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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 15: (search)
on rode at sea off the Chesapeake Bay, which was known to be the entrance to the river of King James in Virginia. Here Hudson changed his course. On the twenty-eighth he entered the great bay, now known as Delaware; and gave one day to its rivers, its currents and soundings, and the aspect of the country. Then sailing to the north along the low sandy coast that appeared like broken islands in the surf, on the second of September he was attracted by the pleasant sight of the high hills of Navesink. On the following day, as he approached the bold land, three separate rivers seemed to be in sight. He stood towards the northernmost, which was probably Rockaway inlet, but finding only ten feet of water on its bar, he cast about to the southward, and almost at the time when Champlain was invading New York from the North, he sounded his way to an anchorage within Sandy Hook. On the fourth the ship went further up the Horse Shoe to a very good harbor near the New Jersey shore; and that